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Theatre Arts (Minor)

Add the power of performance to your degree. The Theatre Arts minor blends creativity, cultural awareness, critical thinking and hands-on stage experience. These skills equip you with the communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills necessary to a career in any field.

Type: Minor

Format: In-Person

Credit Hours: 24

College: College of Arts and Sciences

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The 24-credit Theatre Arts minor combines performance, stagecraft, theatre history, script analysis, cultural diversity in performance and production credits. Flexible electives let you tailor your focus in acting, design or theatre studies. Because it instills communication, analytical and collaboration skills necessary to most professions, the minor enhances a broad range of majors including humanities, pre-med, pre-law, business, criminal justice, communication and engineering.

This program was approved for students entering the university in the Summer 2025-Spring 2026 catalog year. For more information about catalog year, go to Catalog Year Information.

Minor in Theatre Arts
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences (AS)
Department: Theatre Arts
Academic Plan Code(s): TA_ _MINOR

Program Requirements

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
TA 240	Stagecraft	3
TA 224	Introduction to Acting as Communication - OC	3
or TA 322	Acting the Black Experience - AH, P1
TA 326	Cultural Diversity in Performance - AH, P1	3
TA 350	Theatre Production Practicum (five productions, 1 credit each)	5
TA 360	Theatre History & Script Analysis I: Classical-Medieval - WR	3
or TA 361	Theatre History & Script Analysis II: Renaissance-Romantic - WR
or TA 362	Theatre History & Script Analysis III: Modern & Contemporary - WR
TA 460	Black Diasporic Conversations Seminar	1
Theatre Arts (TA) Electives		6
Minimum Total Hours		24

At least three (3) semester hours of the requirements for a minor must be successfully completed while enrolled in the University of Louisville.